Cierra Swait, MS, ALMFT, Therapy in Evanston, Illinois

Cierra Swait, ALMFT, helps patients in Illinois find clarity, emotional relief, and sustainable coping strategies when navigating life challenges. She provides a grounded, collaborative therapeutic space for teens and adults, including people navigating midlife transitions, relationships, and later life stages. As a Marriage & Family Therapist Associate at LifeStance Health, she supports individuals, couples, and families through difficult emotional terrain with warmth and clinical insight. Cierra brings deep experience in ADHD, anxiety, and depression helping clients understand how these conditions shape their daily functioning, relationships, and self-perceptions. She often works with teens and young adults building identity, adults managing role expectations, and older adults facing later life transitions. She tailors sessions using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Dialectal Behavior therapy, and Couples/Marital Counseling to address negative thought patterns, improve communication, and strengthen emotional regulation. Cierra also offers additional interventions and therapeutic approaches when appropriate. Cierra is especially passionate about helping couples repair trust, deepen emotional intimacy, and reconnect with one another after periods of conflict or disconnection. She also supports neurodivergent individuals in understanding their needs and developing lifestyles, systems, and coping strategies that align with and support their neurobiology. Her work with Neurodiversity and LGBTQ populations is grounded in affirmation, curiosity, and respect for diverse neurotypes and lived experiences. Cierra offers Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, and Family Therapy, and treats patients ages 15 and up. Outside of the therapy room, she loves tapping into her creative hobbies. Such as candle making, journaling, scrapbooking, painting, casual photography, reading, and enjoying movies, music, food, and weekend shopping.